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Even one of online video's biggest stars isn't immune to copyright claims....

Earlier this week it was announced that Yahoo is selling social bookmarking service Delicious to the founders of YouTube and their new company called Avos. After the announcement was made, the companies told everyone who had ever had a Delicious account that they needed to log in and opt-in to having their data transfered over into the new company.

Google's YouTube is expanding its movie-rental service, as the video site tries to shift from homemade videos to professional entertainment content.

Obama set the 'gold standard' for use of social media, and now it's an absolute must for candidates.Four years ago, Barack Obama kicked off his presidential campaign on the steps of Illinois' Old State Capitol, speaking in front of thousands of supporters and a throng of media.

The online world got an April Fools' Day makeover as YouTube rolled out 1911 viral videos and the Huffington Post put up a mock pay wall.

OpenDNS has published their report on the most whitelisted and most blacklisted sites of the year 2010 that might help you get some idea on how the sites are being used by the individuals and organizations. You can see the outlook of its subscribers on the sites they are blacklisting and how some sites useful for some can be even blacklisted by others though not in ethical sense.

TODAY takes a look back at the viral videos that lit up the Internet. (Today Show)

YouTube forms a very small portion of Google's overall business accounting for 4% of Google's stock

A British official pressed for the removal of videos featuring calls to jihad by Anwar al-Awlaki, and a New York legislator, Anthony Weiner, sent YouTube a letter.

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